Miscellaneous Mosaic Variations

Outdoor Wednesday is in the next post
Scroll down for Color Carnival

Still sunny ... shadows
easy to find everywhere
in my neighborhood


Click to embiggen for better viewing
and for others participating in
Shadow Shot Sunday
at Hey Harriet

Sharing colorful
versions of some earlier
mosaics of mine

Originals can be
viewed by clicking on the links
above each collage

Everybody knows
I love experimenting ...
just because I can ;-)

Pink Diplodanias - Inverted

Mellow Yellow Alaskan Views - Solarized

Wild Bear in Alaska - Solarize

Click to embiggen for better viewing
See also Oregon Coastal Skies Solarized
at Small Reflections and for
other Color Carnival
& Haiku Friday
participants

Click for a 2nd Color Carnival
this week at Small Reflections ... just because ;-)

If you're on Daylight Savings Time
remember to change your clocks
to 'Fall back' Saturday night.

Thought for Today
"What is now proven was once only imagined." William Blake

Bulb Shoots with a Mind of their Own

ShadowShotSunday
& Mosaic Monday are in the next post
ALMOST

These little bulb shoots
do not realize it's not
Spring ... rather crazy

to see them pop up
in October rather than
when they're supposed to.

Originals above & posted edges below
(click to embiggen for better viewing)

Irises planted
thirty years ago beneath
this Korean grass

have bloomed every Spring
but I have no idea what
might happen next now ...

because it's October!
Do YOU?
This is what they looked like this past Spring!

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and for others participating in
Outdoor Wednesday
Midweek Blues
(Almost) Wordless Wednesday
See also little white butterflies at Happily Retired Gal

Thought for Today
"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." Goethe

Shadow Shot Sunday - Mosaic Monday

Forest shadows and
railings near Lake Arrowhead ...
Sunday mosaic

Click to embiggen for better viewing
and for others participating in
Shadow Shot Sunday
at Hey Harriet



These mosaics look
much the same until you click
to 'embiggen' them

Lightened

Accented Edges

Paint Daubs


Rough Pastels


Solarize Lightened

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and for others participating in

and Mosaic Monday


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Thanks to everyone
who dropped by to celebrate
Blogoversaries

for my second year
at Sacred Ruminations
and Small Reflections.

If you missed them and
have the time just click below ...
Have a lovely day!

T-13 Celebrating my Second Blogoversary
at Small Reflections and/or
Sky Watch - Celebrating my 2nd Blogoversary
here at Sacred Ruminations

I've left two awards
featuring Ms Kitty and
Molly ... just because.

Thought for Today
"What are you being called to do? Stop, sit and listen for a while. The answer will come." Lisa Hammond

Haiku Sky Watch - Celebrating my 2nd Blogoversary

Who knew how much fun
blogging would be way back when
I decided to

start this second site
on October twenty-third
2007?

Today's post makes my
four hundred seventy-fourth
... rather amazing.


Please accept this gift as a token of our appreciation
for stopping by and commenting ;--)

If you have the time
click to celebrate with me
at Small Reflections.




Revisiting skies
shared previously in this
multi-mosaic

Click to embiggen for better viewing ...
and for others participating in Haiku Friday and Sky Watch

Thought for Today

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." George Eliot

Taking a moment ... just because

Camera Critters is in the next post
Scroll down for Blog Your Blessings on Sunday
and Haiku Memories of my Brother

Fall photos from my
sister's U. S. travels back
in 2006



Palette Knife filter
blurs the details creating
an 'artistic' view





Distort - Pinch


Polar Coordinates




Poster Edges

Originals - Straight out of the Camera

Paint Daubs

Poster Edges

Click any image to embiggen for better viewing
and for others participating in
Scenic Sunday
Shadow Shot Sunday
Mellow Yellow Monday
Mosaic Monday

"Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again." Menachem Mendel Schneerson

October 18th
birthday of my brother who
died just before his

65th birthday ...
Would be 75 if
he was still on earth.

In February
I'll be 65 myself ...
strange how quickly time

passes. I'm grateful
for many memories and
life-long lessons learned.

Generous and kind
loving son, husband, father
brother ... passed without

meeting 5 grand kids
each born after his demise ...
Lively legacy ;--)

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
Cherokee Indian Proverb

See my Daily Gratitude List
in the sidebar at Small Reflections
and the lists I've transferred to Happily Retired Gal

What are some blessings in YOUR life currently?

For others who 'Blog Their Blessings'

go to My Blog Rolls and/or click on the
Blog Your Blessings logo
above Really Good Things.

For those who participate in Sacred Life Sunday
click the logo below:

Blessed Be ... and so it is!

Thought for Today

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983

Rainy Day Walk - Coots and Pigeons

Almost

Unusual bird
near Alice's Restaurant
on a rainy day

Click any image to embiggen for better viewing.

A Coot Invasion?
As I walked around the park
these birds followed me.

Do you see the rabbit in the photo above?

One of these birds is not like the others ;--)


Originals


Poster Edges

Click to embiggen for better viewing ...
for others participating in Haiku Friday, Camera Critters
and (Almost) Wordless Wednesday on Friday

Thought for Today
"What are the good things in your life? Write down all of the life choices or gifts that you are grateful for and want to celebrate today." Gail McMeekin